NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Radiance Blu-ray (July 2026): Radiance have transferred Romolo Guerrieri's The Double to Blu-ray. Radiance’s new 4K restoration from the original camera negative is a revelation for this long-underrated giallo. The 1080P transfer looks highly pleasing, with excellent detail, rich color saturation, and impressive depth. The film’s contrasting visual palette - vibrant, sun-soaked Moroccan exteriors and golden skin tones versus the shadowy, high-contrast Roman parking garage and interiors - is beautifully rendered. Grain is natural and film-like, never overpowering, while black levels are deep and stable. Minor source imperfections remain, but overall this is a significant upgrade over previous VHS and bootleg sources. The restoration honors Carlo Carlini’s (I Vitelloni, La Strada, General Della Rovere, Hercules and the Captive Women, The Big Gundown, The Bloodstained Butterfly, Seven Deaths in the Cats Eyes, Black Emanuelle, The Pyjama Girl Case,) cinematography, making the delirious editing and hallucinatory sequences vibrant with newfound clarity and texture. It’s easily the best this film has ever looked for home viewing.  

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On their Blu-ray, Radiance offer optional Italian and English audio tracks, both in the film’s original uncompressed mono. The Italian track feels most authentic to the production, while the English DUB is serviceable for those who prefer it. Dialogue is clear throughout, and Armando Trovajoli’s (Hercules in the Haunted World, Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory, Two Women, The Valachi Papers, A Special Day, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Marriage Italian Style, La Vista,) eclectic score - shifting between seductive lounge rhythms and eerie, Penderecki-like dissonance - sounds full and dynamic within the mono limitations. The music shifts between seductive, groovy lounge vibes (fitting the erotic triangles and bourgeois settings) and jarring, modernist dissonance that underscores jealousy, violence, and surreal fragmentation. Sound effects, heartbeats, gunshots, and ambient textures during the dying sequences are well-preserved and impactful. It is clean making for an immersive and historically accurate mono experience. Radiance offer optional English and English (SDH) subtitles on their Region FREE Blu-ray.

Radiance adds newly-produced supplements for this Blu-ray. The disc includes an audio commentary by Tim Lucas (Throat Sprockets, Pause. Rewind. Obsess. One Man’s One Year Escape into Cinema) recorded in 2026, in which our favorite veteran genre expert delivers an informative and enthusiastic track covering production history, Guerrieri’s career, stylistic influences, cast anecdotes and the film’s place in the giallo canon. There is also an archival 1/4 hour interview with director Romolo Guerrieri and star Ewa Aulin, newly edited exclusively for this release. Filmed in 2013 and 2017 this warm conversation sees the director and actress sharing their memories and experiences of making the film. Guerrieri stated that Ewa Aulin had the 'best bum' in the industry at the time of filming.  Additionally, Italian film expert and author Stephen Thrower (author of Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents,) offers an appreciation of the film’s unique thematic and stylistic elements in a 26-minute interview filmed exclusively for Radiance Films in April 2026. An Easter egg provides three extended deleted scenes totaling shy of 3-minutes; these scenes were included in a Greek VHS version of the film that served as the primary source for bootlegs for many years. They are presented here as they originally appeared since the master elements have been lost. The release also features a reversible sleeve with artwork based on original posters and a limited edition booklet containing new writing by Nathaniel Thompson.

Romolo Guerrieri's The Double stands as one of the more ambitious and unconventional entries in the Italian giallo cycle of the early 1970s. Directed by Guerrieri (The Sweet Body of Deborah, $10,000 Blood Money, Son of Samson, Young, Violent, Dangerous, Detective Belli,) - a versatile filmmaker who moved fluidly between spaghetti westerns, gialli, peplum, and later poliziotteschi - the film adapts Libero Bigiaretti’s novel into a nonlinear, psychologically fractured meditation on jealousy, identity, erotic obsession, and mortality. The story opens with protagonist Giovanni (Jean Sorel - Paranoia, Short Night of Glass Dolls, The Sweet Body of Deborah, The Fox with a Velvet Tail, Belle de Jour, The Day Of The Jackal, Perversion Story, A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, In the Eye of the Hurricane,) an architect from a wealthy family tied to a brick-manufacturing business, being gunned down in an underground Roman parking garage by a mysterious bearded man. As he lies dying, his life unspools in a series of disordered flashbacks, memories, and hallucinations. These fragments reveal his failing marriage to the young, flirtatious Lucia (Ewa Aulin - Candy, Death Smiles on a Murderer, Blood Ceremony, Death Laid an Egg, Deadly Sweet,) his deepening obsession with her mother Nora (Lucia Bosé - Story of a Love Affair, La Signora Senza Camelie, Blood Ceremony, Death of a Cyclist, Testament of Orpheus, Fellini's Satyricon,) family business tensions, and encounters with friends and a hitchhiker named Eddie (Sergio Doria - Death Smiles on a Murderer, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire.) At its core, The Double explores masculine insecurity and the fragility of identity. Giovanni is a man of privilege who achieves little on his own merits; his jealousy over Lucia’s behavior drives him toward an Oedipal entanglement with Nora, blurring generational and familial boundaries. The “double” or “stand-in” motif (reflected in the title) suggests projection, substitution, and the uncanny doubling of desire - Giovanni imagines killing rivals, confuses faces during intimate moments (Lucia morphing into Nora), and grapples with versions of himself as failed provider, jealous husband, and fantasist. The film also delves into eroticism, class, and bourgeois decay. It portrays a leisured elite rife with adultery, envy, and emotional violence. Sexual encounters are charged and explicit for the era, but often laced with discomfort or power imbalances, including elements of assault. The dying protagonist’s perspective turns the narrative into an existential reckoning, questioning memory’s reliability and the self’s coherence. Radiance’s Blu-ray of The Double is an excellent release that finally does justice to this stylish, elliptical, and underseen 1971 giallo. The 4K restoration elevates the film’s visual beauty and surreal editing, while the extras provide strong historical and critical context without padding. It’s a must-own for fans of classic Italian genre cinema. Highly recommended - especially for those discovering the film through this restoration. One of the more desirable boutique label releases of 2026.

Gary Tooze